Print Email Facebook Twitter Segregation, choice based letting and social housing: How housing policy can affect the segregation process Title Segregation, choice based letting and social housing: How housing policy can affect the segregation process Author Van Ham, M. Manley, D. Faculty OTB Research Institute for the Built Environment Date 2012-12-31 Abstract In this chapter we investigate the process of ethnic minority segregation in English social housing. Successive governments have expressed a commitment to the con-tradictory aims of providing greater choice – through the introduction of choice based letting – for households accessing an increasingly marginalised social housing sector whilst also expressing a determination to create more mixed communities and neighbourhoods. We consider the concept of choice in the context of a heavily resid-ualised social housing sector, arguing that, for social housing tenants at least, the concept of real choice is a misnomer. We draw on research that has utilised unique administrative data and analysed the moves of all entrants into and movers within the social renting sector over a ten year period in England. The conclusion is that the introduction of choice based letting has influenced the residential outcomes of ethnic minorities and resulted in highly structured neighbourhood sorting that has segregated minority populations into the least desirable neighbourhoods of English cities. Subject segregationchoice based lettingsocial housinghousing policyUK To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:03a80153-27fe-4593-9419-9beecd1af263 Publisher Delft University of Technology, OTB Research Institute for the Built Environment Source Working paper 2012-06 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type report Rights (c) 2013 Van Ham, M.Manley, D. Files PDF OTB_Working_papers_2012-0 ... ousing.pdf 553.91 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:03a80153-27fe-4593-9419-9beecd1af263/datastream/OBJ/view